Obviously, not everyone who wears a MAGA hat is a member of a far-right gang devoted to street violence. Nor does everyone who wears a MAGA hat insult or attack marginalized people. But everyone who wears a MAGA hat should know that they are associating themselves with Trump’s exclusionist, angry rhetoric. Everyone who wears a MAGA hat should know that many marginalized people see the hat as a symbol of hate.

Holy Hell.

the insistence that a hat meant to make a political statement somehow isn't political is something else.

Also the pretense that any fo these folks are concerned about sexual assault when they're defending Trump. https://t.co/mDIhPIUsBW

Noah doesn’t seem all that thrilled with being called out for claiming Nick’s hat was to blame for a bunch of adults acting like idiots to a bunch of high school kids.

Ideally I do not want a world in which children wander out in public with symbols of hate on their head because they think it's cool. That is the world we're living in, though, and we don't change it by pretending we're not.

I think people should be aware too that wearing a MAGA hat is aligning yourself with literal Nazis. It's a deliberate provocation, which is likely to spark and escalate conflict. That's what wearing them is meant to do.